Defunct process

[Julian Field]

Anything in the logs to show what happened?

At 17:08 21/01/2003, you wrote:
>                         Hello,
>i had seen this message in the archive list:
>-------------------------------------------
>This is a behaviour seen on a few operating system versions. It is 
>entirely harmless and nothing to worry about. It doesn't affect your OS or 
>MailScanner at all.
>At 08:16 29/08/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I see a [mailscanner <defunct>] process that moves around to different PIDs.
> >Mailscanner is still running the normal processes like
> >
> >21759 ? S 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
> >21764 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q1m
> >21773 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/mailscanner >/usr/local/MailScanner/etc/mailsca 
> nn er.conf
> >and below this:
> >
> >21868 ? Z 0:00 [mailscanner <defunct>] >
>--------------------------------------------
>
>You said it is harmless; but my mailscanner always try to start chil 
>process and
>does not work anymore. The messages stay in the mqueue.in directory
>
>I install again the 4.05 version and it's ok
>
>Thanks a lot for your answer
>
>
>
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